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...fifth set of the Cornell match, and Harvard puts the match, away with a spike. After the match, Cyndy comes to give her sister a hug and asks her about her right thumb, which has torn ligaments...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Schossberger Soars Above Competition | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

...prop a bottle of Perrier, and the song will take him over, take him away. He sings lyrics, he sings rhythms, he sings sounds. "Singing without words is easier," he says. "Consonants get in the way. It's hard to sing as fluidly with lyrics." He will slap his thumb against his chest to make a bass tone as his hand becomes the snare drum. The mike, rubbed against his close- cut beard, can be the chug of a train or the swoosh of a samba beat. Whether in a Beatles number like Drive My Car or a dazzling reworking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Beat Box with Four Octaves | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

Picture Boston in your mind. Maybe you've looked at a map and have a fuzzy sense of a thumb-shaped downtown, filled with whorls of streets and alleys, all surrounded by a sprawling blend of semi-cities and crawling, industrialized rivers. If there are some places on that map you've actually been to, they'll be clear--the gold dome of the State House, restaurant lights at Faneuil Hall, tile mosaics in the T, that huge cantilevered sculpture thing in front of the aquarium. Whatever. The secondhand knowledge you have about Boston, as a center for culture, weird...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...Also, a thumb injury to Schossberger and a forearm injury to junior Yvonne Karanas--combined with a four-game sickness to Forman--didn't help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Spikers Tomahawk Host Chiefs | 10/6/1988 | See Source »

Ironically, the most conservative President since Herbert Hoover has found his veto power no more effective than a thumb in the dike in stanching a flood of progressive (the "L" word is no longer used in capital environs) legislation. By the time Congress adjourns in mid-October, it will have compiled a record in passing landmark activist legislation exceeded in recent years only by the Great Society 89th Congress of 1965 and 1966. Says House Speaker Jim Wright by way of explanation: "There were pent-up needs too long deferred." Adds Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "We were too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kings of The Hill Who needs Dukakis? | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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